Hey! The harder they work their people, the fewer pensions they have to pay
out.
Let's hope they don't offer life insurance, or the massive savings will be
offsert and the CEOs won't get as many millions in their golden parachutes
as they could.
http://idiotgrrl.livejournal.com/
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Subject: "Duh!" story #463 . . . Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:39:15 -0500
From CNN.com:
Long working hours linked to high blood pressure
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -- Workers who clocked more than 51 hours at the
office each week were 29 percent more likely to have high blood pressure
than those who worked 39 hours or less, a new study from California has
found.
Nearly all past research linking long work hours and high blood pressure
has been done among Asian workers, Dr. Haiou Yang of the University of
California in Irvine and colleagues note in their report in the journal
Hypertension.
Interest in the topic began in Japan, they add, where a notoriously
high-pressure work culture has given rise to a phenomenon known as Karoshi,
or "sudden death from overwork." Today, Americans work longer hours than do
Japanese, the researchers add.
To investigate whether more time on the job could drive up hypertension
risk among Westerners, the researchers looked at a representative sample of
24,305 California adults who worked 11 hours or more each week.
The likelihood of having high blood pressure rose steadily with the number
of hours worked, the researchers found, and persisted even after adjusting
for factors such as socioeconomic status and body weight.
Those who worked 40 hours per week were 14 percent more likely to have high
blood pressure than people who worked 39 hours or less. Hypertension risk
was 17 percent greater in those working 41 to 50 hours weekly, and 29
percent higher in those working 51 hours or more.
The researchers also found that hypertension was more common among clerical
and unskilled workers than among professionals. This "suggests that
occupations requiring more challenging and mentally active work may have a
protective effect against hypertension," Yang and his colleagues write.
Almost all of the developed world has legislation limiting work hours,
except for the United States, the researchers note.
Copyright 2006 Reuters.
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<<http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/08/29/work.blood.pressure.reut/index.html>>
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